As for my hard earned money on recorded music-- I recently downloaded some Elvis, some Clara Ward and some early Yeah, Yeah Yeahs. But I don't know if I can count it has "hard earned" as they were bought with a couple of gifts certificates from a friend and my brother-in-law, for my birthd...

I plan to see The Dirtbombs again when they come back in May. $10 cover! That's hard to beat. I'm debating seeing The Kills again in May too. But I saw both The Kills and The Dirtbombs last year and don't know if I should spend all my entertainment expenditures seeing the same bands over again.

It's not Memorex. It's Maxell. And the model for the original campaign was Peter Murphy of Bauhaus. They recreated the ad several times over the 80s, including making it into a TV spot. http://i477.photobucket.com/albums/rr140/schauerfilm/maxell.jpg Memorex was the win glass shattering. http://ricks...

...However, I think that it's bullshit that some artificial market forces are hastening the demise of a music format I truly love. Ha... yes, it's all a big conspiracy man. It doesn't have anything to do with people buying (or simply getting ) music downloaded from the web. It all the man forcing i...

Right now all of my CDs are in storage, stacked in boxes right beside all my boxed up vinyl... and my one small box of cassettes. I view them only as backup storage. Of course, I recently bought a Terabyte external RAID drive to run a double redundant backup of my desktop machine, where I keep my mu...

The sound of Whiney Houston's voice, and that entire contemporary commercialized overproduced r'n'b/pop... like fingernails on a chalkboard. And the entire genre of "slow jams." Same for contemporary-country/pop. And for "boy bands." And for heavy metal bands with gratuitous use ...